The City are installing new pedestrian buttons on many of the traffic signals in the downtown area. The pedestrian lights currently go on automatically and I assume they will 'un-box' all of them when the new system is finished. Many are 'boxed' in Front, King, Church.

The lights go on automatically unless a visually impaired pedestrian needs to activate the audible signal that is controlled by the boxed over buttons. It seems irresponsible to cover them for days or weeks at a time until the City gets around to changing them.

I am not a City employee but 311 closes SCF items when they pass the request along to the relevant City department. This makes sense for them but confuses us! Frankly., you are better to phone 311 and they are there 24/7. They have installed new push buttons all along King and they have been boxed for several weeks but the traffic light folk were working on Front yesterday so I HOPE they will be 're-opened' soon - I had not thought of the absence of the audible signals (in places which had it before). I think all new ones will have this useful feature.